Table-fork



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUBERT C. HART, OF UNIONVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

TABLE-FORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,889, dated July 5,1881. Application filed January 26, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUBERT C. HART, of Unionville, inthe county ofHartford and State ot' Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Table-Forks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in forks in which the tines,sha-nk, and one-half of the handle are made ot' one piece of coldrolledsteel struck up in dies, and the other half of the handle ot' a separatepiece made in like manner, the two halves of the handle being doweledand riveted, and the objects of inyiniprovements are to produce a cheap,light, and durable fork. I attain these objects by making the fork ofsteel in the t'orrn illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure l is a plan v iew; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section on line w m ofFig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section line on y y of Figzvl, and Fig. 4is a transverse section on line z z of Fig. l.

I tirst blank out the tines a c a, shank b, and the half, c, ofthehandle A, all in one pieceand from cold-rolled steel, and the otherhalf', d, of the handle from a separate piece. I thenstrike thesepieces, when cold, in dies which throw the metal into the form shown inthe drawings-that is, with a central corrugation extendinglongitudinally through each ofv the tines and the shank, and aborder-corrugati-on on the two halves of the handle. Thisbordercorrugation forms a bead around the edge of each halt' upon theoutside and a groove upon the inside. After the parts have been thusstruck up or swaged it is only necessary to place the two halvestogether, as shown, and secure them by rivets m m, when the article isfinished ready for use. The steel being coldrolled requires nopolishing, but may be turnbled, it' desired, and also the handle may bejapanned, or linished in any desired manner.

Although itis not necessary, I prefer to strike up cup-like depressionso o in the halves c d ot' the handle A, which, when said halves areplaced together, will t into each other and act as dowels to seat thehalves properly uponl each other, in which case I pass the rivets m onthrough the bottoms ot' said depressions,

and with the rivet-heads sunk therein, as shown.

I claim as lny inventionl. The sheet-metal fork having centralcorrugations extending longitudinally through

